It is where one first enters Mirkwood and is directly across from Lothlórien. When you first arrive in Mirkwood, you will be launched into a public instance. You will enter the normal Mirkwood when you finish the instance concerning the assault on the gates leading to the Dourstocks.

The River Anduin

The Anduin, was the longest river in Middle-Earth during the Third Age with a length of appoximately 1,388 miles (or 2,234 kilometers).

The Sindarin name literally meaning "Long River", the Anduin is the river flowing along the eastern edge of Lothlórien separating it from Mirkwood.

During the First Age, a stretch of land along the Great River was home to Entwives and their beautiful gardens. But this place of beauty was blasted by Sauron in the Second Age, and is now called the Brown Lands. The Great River is a divider; on the western bank is life, forests, tributaries and the like, while the east is wasteland, destroyed, rocky.